Derivatives

confiscator

The ‘confiscators’ had a terrible attitude and even called in security personnel to forcibly remove news photographers from the scene.

Southern whites would visit their wrath on the Federal soldier who served as the ‘propagator of the most infamous and sanguinary doctrines, as an apostle of servile war, murder and outrage, as a confiscator and a robber.’

confiscatory

Proving once again that a primary function of government is the obsessive pursuit of finding new ways to bleed the public by confiscatory taxation, the State of Oregon will implement a program to tax the odometers on vehicles.

For most others, taxes were often confiscatory and arbitrary, so that broad-based capital accumulation has been near-impossible.

I don't believe that making money is evil, that rich people are necessarily greedy, or that confiscatory taxation helps the poor.

Origin

The original meaning of confiscate was ‘to take someone's property for the public treasury as a punishment’. It comes from Latin confiscare ‘to store in a chest’ or ‘to take something for the public treasury’, based on con- ‘together’ and fiscus ‘chest or treasury’, also the root of fiscal (mid 16th century).